"As the cause is, so the effect will be."
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"Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes."
"Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me, cause I'll just use you then I'll set you free."
"Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily."
"Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect."
"Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock."
"Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect."
"You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough."
"Magic causes as much trouble as it cures."
"I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there."
"Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within."
"The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship."
"Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just."
"Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God."
"Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve also"
"Praise and disgrace cause fear."
"The forceful and violent will not die from natural causes."
"Turkish football serves the cause of nationalism, but not of the nation."
"Hip-Hop is Dead cause America is dead culturally."
"The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior, which is not going to happen. It's going to cause trouble."